cool thanx for the help, ill play around with it til it works ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Cadillac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:54 PM Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: a question about dynamic code
> Hi Atrix, > > If the code is coming in chunks, then you might want to investigate the > <@LITERAL> metatag when putting the variables back to together - before > rendering. > > Hope this helps. Cheers.... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Atrix Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:43 AM > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: a question about dynamic code > > > > thank you both for responding, now i know at the very least that this is > > possible! > > > > when you say dont do anything funky to it before you insert it, i think > > thats where a problem might be coming in. I didnt want to limit the text > > size to something small, and i didnt want to allocate huge chunks of text > in > > the DB when i might only use a little bit of it most of the time, so i > have > > a table which has an id, a "chunk number" and a chunk of text thats 50 > > characters long. I use a for loop and <@substring> to cut it into blocks > of > > 50 characters for storage in the database and when i dont use encoding=sql > i > > get an error. An example insert that fails without sql encoding is this: > > > > insert into VarText (Chunk,TextID,ChunkNumber) values > > '.districtno='@@user$vdistrictno' and location.locn', 86, 5 > > > > also when i select...i select like this: > > > > select chunk from vartext where TextID=@@local$TextID order by chunk > number > > > > then store it to a variable like this: > > > > <@assign local$Code value="<@VAR local$resultset type=text APrefix='' > > ASuffix='' RPrefix='' RSuffix='' CPrefix='' CSuffix=''>"> > > > > any obvious problems with any of this? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Scott Cadillac > > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:17 PM > > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: a question about dynamic code > > > > > > Hi Atrix, > > > > Yes, you can store raw Witango Metatag text in a database and execute it > > (dynamically) when the content is requested. I have this feature enabled > for > > all my webpages of my site ( http://xml-extra.net ) and so many parts of > the > > site are running dynamically straight from the database - and yes, at the > > same time, I have one set of Witango files that services many different > > domains with different content. > > > > And of course I have an on-line Text Editor for the pages, so when you > > couple this with things like Database and Mail Actions stored in TCF files > > (called via <@callmethod>) - you have a powerful programming environment > > running over the web. > > > > ENCODING=METAHTML is the trick - but if it's not working for you, check > the > > Server configuration file because there might be a switch that turns this > > off. I doubt that it's a licensing restriction. > > > > Also, are you on T2K SP1 at least? I know it works on this version - but I > > can't remember about older versions. > > > > And maybe make user you're not doing anything funky with the variable > before > > displaying it with ENCODING=METAHTML > > > > Hope this helps. Cheers.... > > > > Scott Cadillac > > VP, Research and Development > > Plus International Corp. > > 403-281-6090 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.plusinternational.com > > > > Does your company have an Enterprise Information Portal? Check out Salsa > at > > www.plusinternational.com/flash/salsa.htm > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Atrix Wolfe > > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:33 PM > > Subject: Witango-Talk: a question about dynamic code > > > > > > hello i got a crazy question kinda... > > > > we have an app where we have several different clients that each have > their > > own "playground" within the same set of apps so depending on which group > > youve logged into, the applications can vary quite dramaticly. Because > > switches and settings can only go so far, i was thinking we could store > > snippets of witango code in the database and then select them for the > > appropriate group, store it in a var and do a <@var local$Code > > encoding=metahtml>. It seems not to want to work and i was wondering if > it > > was because of a licensing issue? > > > > Im storing the code with encoding=sql so it can handle quotes and other > sql > > control characters within the string. > > > > im selecting it into local$Rule and then doing an <@var local$Rule > > encoding=metahtml> to get the code to "run". > > > > When i try to run it it just spits out the code plaintext without parsing > > it. When i look at it in the database, it has < and > instead of < and > > > so thats not the problem. > > > > When i do a <@var local$Rule> it shows < as < and > as > > > > > when i do a <@var local$Rule encoding=none> it shows the code without > > parsing it (< as < and > as > but no code being run) > > > > when i do a <@var local$Rule encoding=metahtml> it also just shows the > code > > without running it. > > > > im pretty sure i must be doing something wrong but cant see what. Anyone > > have any idea? > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
